Boyle re-invents the zombie genre!

Rating: 9/10 (16 November 2007)

Danny Boyle (Trainspotting, The Beach, Shallow Grave) is an amazing and visionary director. You may ask, what separates 28 Days Later from any other zombie film, isn't it just about a group of survivors trying to escape the hordes of infected? One thing, this doesn't focus on blood and gore, flashy MTV style editing and heavy metal music to scare the audience. 28 Days Later focuses more on the eerie, emotional and unsettling to involve the audience.
A group of animal activists accidentally release an incurable virus into England. This virus causes the infected to be filled with rage and become hungry for blood. Four weeks later and England is virtually empty, their are handfuls of survivors around the place. Four survivors team up and try to find sanctuary while fending off hordes of the infected.
Aside from the amazing acting (especially by Cillian Murphy), the awesome camera-work and beautiful cinematography this movie has some great messages (much like Romero's zombie movies). Although this movie is about a rage virus, rage is a human emotion and this is evident towards the end when our protagonist goes a rampage, killing everyone in sight. He isn't infected, however, and what tops this perfect scene off is one of the other survivors mistakes him for one of the infected (but doesn't kill him).
Our society is plagued by violence and rage and Danny Boyle is the perfect man to show us this using cinema. 28 Days Later is an amazing and terrifying horror movie and I highly recommend it to everyone.
4½/5